Claudia Ahlering - Painting

Hiromart Gallery Tokyo is pleased to announce the opening of “The  Internal Organs,” by Hamburg based artist Claudia Ahlering. The show contains new collection of her oil and watercolor paintings she made for her debut solo-show in Japan.

The Internal Organs

April 22– May 29, 2011

Artist:                                         Claudia Ahlering

Hours:                            1 to 7 pm, Closed on Monday and Tuesday (or by appointment)

Opening Reception with the Artist:        Friday April 22, 6 - 9 pm

The internal organs

These drawings and paintings are about inner processes - Sometimes it can be taken literally.

Claudia Ahlering presents herself as a fairytale book, giving the viewer to flip over the pages of her personal environment, heavily influenced by human behaviors and poetically diverted by her imagination.

All the perceptible intrinsic torture resides in the ambiguity of her creations. They are heavily related to the roots, the place of the female, or the gender, and in technical terms would be defined by certain fragility and exacerbated sensibility. 

Artist statement

In these artworks I elaborate some bad personal experiences. Images of the body are playing a certain role in my artworks and these are also about human relations. The technique of aquarelle/water colors I discovered for my purpose to use the right means of expression. Often it’s about some kind of lightness or the opposite of it, gravity. I’d like to show the shadows in life and in our feelings but at the same time I don’t want to miss to give humor and self-mockery.

Artist

Claudia Ahlering born in 1972 in Diepholz. She studied Fine Arts and Paintings since 1991, including scholarship at the École-des-Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 2004, Ahlering received the Elysee-Price for figurative painting in Hamburg. She had 6 solo-shows at galleries in Hamburg and London since her debut solo show held in 2004 by Kunsttreppe Hamburg. She also exhibited at numerous group show both domestically and internationally. Currently she lives in Hamburg, Germany.

Education

École-des-Beaux-Arts, Paris – 2004-2005

HAW Hamburg – 2004, Finals grade: Diploma

Fachhochschule Münster – 1996-1999

Apprenticeship glasspainting – 1994-1996

Fine Arts, Fachhochschule Hannover – 1991-1993

Claudia Ahlering’s Catalogue Available.

The article on the exhibition is published in The Daily Yomiuri dated April 29, 2011.

Please contact us for information and availability on the artworks: info(at)hiromartgallery.com

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